The United States launched dozens of cruise missiles Thursday night at a Syrian airfield in response to what it believes was the Syrian government's use of banned chemical weapons blamed for having killed at least 100 people on Tuesday, U.S. military officials told NBC News. The U.S. military fired at least 50 Tomahawk missiles intended for a single target — Ash Sha'irat in Homs province in western Syria, the officials said. That's the airfierld from which the United States believes the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fired the banned weapons.

Sen. Paul would make a number of changes to the tax code for individuals. He would replace the current seven tax bracket structure with a flat rate of 14.5percent and apply that tax rate to all income – wages and salaries,capital gains, dividends, interest, and rents.

The plan would include a $15,000 standard deduction (per filer) and a $5,000 per person personal exemption. This means that a family of four would pay no income tax on their first $50,000 of income ($55,000 for a family of five, etc.).

Retirement accounts remain as they currently are and in our modeling we assumed that the exclusion for employer-provided health

Pearson is a Georgia student entering 8th grade whose videos backing conservative causes have gone viral. He said he is currently part of Paul's Georgia leadership team.

In a conversation with Business Insider on Thursday, Pearson said one of the first things people his age notice about Paul is his distinctive hair.
"What I've seen as far as the optics of other young people, they look at Rand with this head full of hair, really curly," Pearson
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No, not abolish it! As some of you may know, I'm no fan of democracy (to put it mildly), but if we must have it (and it seems we must at least for a foreseeable future), then perhaps we can improve it? Here are some ideas.

1. The main source of bad policy (economic policy esp.), IMO, is the need for politicians to get re-elected; i.e. they support policies which they know hurt the country for the benefit of groups (whether voters or donors) whose support they need to get re-elected. To solve this problem, let us have single term limits. No possibility of re-election = no corrupt behavior for the purpose of getting re-elected.

2. Another problem is time-preference; i.e. politicians who are in office for only a short time (or, eve if they remain in office a
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Getting a libertarian majority government is the immediate goal, but it's not enough. There are problems in the Constitution (some in the original document, others added later) which need to be resolved, or we're likely to drift back to the status quo, even if once we manage to get some reforms. Of course we could pass amendments directly prohibiting central banking, welfare, economic regulation, etc, etc. But here I've focused on structural issues relating to the form of government. These changes should create incentives for smaller government no matter who's in office or what their ideology.

1. Senate: abolish the 17th amendment and return to a system where Senators are appointed (and can be dismissed at will) by state legislatures

The analysis below is, by far, the best I have seen since the beginning of the conflict in the Ukraine. I have regularly posted analyses by Ishchenko on this blog before, because I considered him as one of the best analysts in Russia. This time, however, Ishchenko has truly produced a masterpiece: a comprehensive analysis of the geostrategic position of Russia and a clear and, I believe, absolutely accurate analysis of the entire “Putin strategy” for the Ukraine. I have always said that this conflict is not about the Ukraine but about the future of the planet and that there is no “Novorussian” or even “Ukrainian” solution, but that the only possible outcome is a strategic

This is both an indirect commentary on Rand's foreign policy platform, and a discussing about what would be an ideal foreign policy platform for future libertarian candidates.

The premises of the discussion are:
(a) it would be good to both drastically reduce military spending and drastically restrict the actual deployment of the military overseas,
but (b) we want to actually win elections so we have to find the right balance between the ideal and the practical

Ron's foreign policy got no traction on the right because he didn't moderate it. He called for both reducing the size of the military and restricting its deployment overseas, both of which are viewed negatively on the right. An ideal libertarian platform would (and Rand's platform more or
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PREFACE: This isn't a justification or criticism of libertarian ethics. If you're already a libertarian, I won't be telling you anything you don't already know. The idea here is just to give a definitive statement of our principles in the simplest, most concise manner possible – without sacrificing completeness. I want you to be able to logically deduce the libertarian answer to any ethical question from these principle alone. This is a work in progress. Tell me if you think I forgot anything, got anything wrong, or didn't state something as clearly as it could be stated.

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What Is Property
1. To use something is to physically change it or move it.
2. Only things capable of undergoing physical change or movement can be owned.
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The point of this is to collect must see quality movies, tv shows, & series that pertain to our movement of peace, freedom, liberty & prosperity including government inefficiency & immorality. Films that encourage individualism over tyranny, self-responsibility over paternalism, and that offer a hearty dose of against-the-grain individualism etc. Movies that enlighten about the current state of...

https://100percentfedup.com/breaking-mn-attorney-general-keith-ellison-deletes-2018-tweet-of-himself-holding-up-antifa-handbook-saying-i-just-found-the-book-that-strike-fear-in-the-heart-of-donald-trump/
Keith Ellison, attn Gen of Minnesota appears to have bought an Antia book.
This could be a federal crime under "Material Support For Terrorism" ?
Any Minnesotans want to fund the...

This is a video with Sibel Edmonds, defiantly a part of the liberty movement talking about the advantage we have in all this BS going right now. She talks about the oath of the military and police to defend the constitution and encourages us all to support our vets, military and police in this. She is so pretty I thought a lot of you could stand to listen to this encouraging word even though it...

Ron Paul & Rand Paul: News & Discussion

Rand is the only person in the Senate speaking out on this and he's taking a lot of heat for it. Here is his explanation in his own words:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTt9Wwd0-74
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB8AjRz1vjM

June 5, 2030
The Federal Reserve has been increasing the supply of dollars at levels not seen in at least 40 years. Even the money pump during the 2008 financial crisis pales in comparison to today's central bank counterfeiting. Just as the lockdowns will produce tremendous ongoing problems, the Fed's reckless money-printing is setting in motion an economic debacle that one can hardly...

I happen to agree...we are so far past voting our way out of this mess.
Kneeling Protesters Told to Recite: ‘Revolution Is the Solution, Not Voting!’
https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2020/06/06/watch-kneeling-protesters-told-to-recite-revolution-is-the-solution-not-voting/
Amy Furr 6 Jun 2020
A large group of George Floyd protesters knelt in the middle of a street in...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-s-crazy-designation-of-antifa-as-terrorist-organization-opinion/ar-BB14QESl?ocid=msedgntp
President Donald Trump's announcement that his administration will designate Antifa as a terrorist organization is surely unconstitutional because it would effectively criminalize joining an American domestic ideological group.
Thanks to the First Amendment, the...

With the unfortunate death of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, America has been plunged into a Civil War by the anarchist organization Antifa. Much has been written about the group, however Antifa’s ties to the British intelligence is a closely guarded secret. From glorifying a British war criminal to bomb innocent civilians again to receiving training and weapons...

$#@! the LP and a bunch of Leftarians.
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Sadly tho, Ron Paul is a cult of personality. So when he becomes less Libertarian with every new word that comes out of his mouth, we lose ground on being able to control how we are defined. The Libertarian Party needs to divorce itself from Ron Paul's cult of personality.
sean haugh
@EmperorSean

Trump opens Atlantic sanctuary to commercial fishing
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-expected-allow-commercial-fishing-151704077.html
President Donald Trump announced on Friday he will open up a 5,000 square mile conservation area in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of New England to commercial fishing.
The move allows commercial fishing to resume in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts...

From Drudge;
Mayor Lori Lightfoot denounces vigilantism in Chicago after white men patrol neighborhood streets with bats
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mayor-lori-lightfoot-denounces-vigilantism-in-chicago-after-white-men-patrol-neighborhood-streets-with-bats/ar-BB152S4r?li=BBnbfcL
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city will not tolerate vigilantism after groups of mostly white...

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Economics News & Discussion

Ron Paul showed a chart in his show that is truly shocking:
Ron's show today had all the usual warnings about printing too much money, talking about how this cannot go on forever, and that the bubble will burst at some point, etc.
They predicted prices will start going up, with the government also stepping in to do price controlling.
We have seen this already where they gave the...

August 01, 2019
By David Stockman
You couldn’t have timed that better. The Donald managed to hold on to a “2” in Friday’s GDP report, but it was entirely due to a boom in government spending.
We’d call it a kind of stick save that came, ironically, the very day Trump is planning to sign a $1.7 trillion budget abomination. The deal negotiated with Pelosi and Chuckles Schumer, and voted...

What's this????
The economy gained 2.5 million jobs in May, lowering the unemployment rate to 13.3%, the Labor Department said Friday.
The payroll gains, the largest on record, represented a stunning development and a hint that the worst-case scenario for the economy might not come to pass. Forecasters had expected job losses of 8 million and an unemployment rate of about 20%.
"This...

On 7 April, the Forbes story that lots of billionaires lost lots of money from the coronavirus “pandemic” was widely (re)published by our wonderful media? It looks like Forbes intentionally selected 18 March as the best date to push this propaganda.
Chuck Collins commented:
In the same month that 22 million Americans lost their jobs (with US employment rate coming close to 15%), American...

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Living Free and Healthy

This fall the Indians on a remote reservation asked their new Chief Oyarde if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild.
Since he was a chief in a modern society, he’d never learned the old tribal secrets. He couldn’t look at the sky to predict what the winter was going to be like.
"It's going to be a very cold winter."
So just to be on the safe side, Oyarde told his tribe that the...

...is that no one knows how to either rule or be ruled.
The people are always the same everywhere and always, but the ruling class has royally $#@!ed things up and should be massively ashamed of themselves. When a Roman general, in the high period of that civilization, failed, he would fall on his sword. I see so very many bellies aching for the sword that I don't even know what to say. What...

When I tell the people in Britain that they´re ruled by dictator Queen Elizabeth, they think I’m insane. Arguably England is the only real colonial power left in the world.
LETTERS PRINCE CHARLES
It is well-known that Queen Elizabeth has a weekly talk with the puppet she selected for Prime Minister. That the Royals talk with politicians to give them “advice” becomes clear when you read the...

I'm not quite sure if this is the ideal forum for this, but it's the closest fit I could find.
When i first read Orwell's 1984 in 2007-2008, I wrote some notes in the Emmanuel Goldstein tract to keep my thoughts straight. Most aren't all that interesting today, but one of them stood out:
The answer to the last question was, "Well, at least 12 more years," but that's not the interesting...